...GUYS, take note of this: Motion: THBT, Co Caseline: Talent search shows are telecommunication-sponsored television programs that act as a tool to boost their business. Disclaimer: This debate is not about whether or not talent search shows discover instant stars because it is a given and in the eyes of the public, it really does which may be a case to case basis at times. This debate is about the sponsorship that takes place within the network, the talent search program and the telecommunications such as smart, globe, talk and text, touch mobile and sun cellular. This is an assessment debate about capability of talent search shows to highlight the texting business and raise the audience and consumers' awareness about the medium. Standards: When do we say the something is sponsored? 1. When a company or a program calls for the use of the product of their partner company. 2. When the medium and its values are highlighted by a partner in several ways. (ie mode of voting) 3. When it is the only product used by its partner company even if there are many products of the same nature. SO ang argument for PRIME MINISTER: 1. Nature of Talent Search Shows in two levels: a) in discovering talents through SMS voting b) how it raises awareness about SMS (texting business) Isip ka pa kung meron pa THEN FOR DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Maria Heredina 1. The power of SMS voting to sponsor Talent Search programs 2. Why talent search programs make use of mobile voting...
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...areas, quality of education is usually not up to the mark, with poor infrastructure, absence of proper qualified teachers and other facilities like electricity, etc. This in turn drives more potential students away from school. Attempts to get round this problem have been made by different third world countries in their own ways. Almost all solutions lie in the use of technology. In our neighboring country, India, the government has tried to promote rural education in various ways, like ensuring provision of at least one computer in every school in the villages, providing group classes by using video and audio conferencing, thereby promoting mass education. Moreover, teachers are given tools like Laptops, printers, etc. to provide notes and other important notices to children. Private institutions like Real, NIIT are opening their centers in rural areas to provide computer education to students and teachers. Private companies...
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...Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Student Theses Spring 2011 Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students James G. Muhammad Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/theses Part of the Communication Technology and New Media Commons Recommended Citation Muhammad, James G., "Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students" (2011). Student Theses. Paper 32. For more information about the academic degree, extended learning, and certificate programs of Governors State University, go to http://www.govst.edu/Academics/Degree_Programs_and_Certifications/ This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Theses by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact opus@govst.edu. Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students By James G. Muhammad B.S., Bowling Green State University, 1976 THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts, With a Major in Communication and Training Governors State University University Park, IL 60466 2011 ii Acknowledgements I am forever grateful to Dr. David Rhea for his counsel, guidance...
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...Text Messaging: The Effects on Our Society A Report By: Blake Hogan, Emily Gilbert, Megan Leckington, and Chris Morris 1 Abstract: In today’s day and age, most everyone in our society has and uses a cell phone. Most of those who use cell phones also use the SMS text messaging that these phones feature. This study takes a look at some of the effects and potential problems arising from the use of this text messaging. A survey of students and instructors at Lane Community College found that 70% of those surveyed believed that texting had harmful effects on students writing skills. However, studies that were analyzed found that texting is actually beneficial. While 54% of teenagers text others on a daily basis only 33% of teenagers talk to others face-to-face, yet it is too early in research to draw a conclusion on whether texting is harmful to their social skills. Most people know that text messaging while driving is very dangerous, yet the studies analyzed as well as the surveys conducted show that some people are still willing to take that risk. Table of Contents: Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………….1 List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………...1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..2 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………...
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...English language. The first text message was sent in 1992. The next year, in 1993, Nokia created the first phone with texting capabilities. It only worked if the recipient of the text had the same cellular plan as the sender. Finally, in 1999, texting people on other networks was finally allowed and it began to take off. The standard texting plan at the time was 35 texts per month. 2002 was when texting really took off, with 250 billion texts sent that year. Text messaging became more common than calling, making texting the number one form of communication in 2007. Texting became so big, that in 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama sent a mass text message to his supporters to announce Joe Biden as his Vice President (Gayomali 1). Today, SMS messages are...
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...regarding text messaging in the workplace? I am not sure what I can and cannot do to prevent my employees from texting at work. Answer: Text messaging (or “texting”) has grown so quickly in popularity and has become so pervasive that it has become part of our workplace culture. Some recent statistics regarding text messaging demonstrate how incredibly popular it has become in the last several years: More than 70% of wireless users (or more than 200 million Americans) have an SMS (or “short message service”) package for their mobile device that allows for short text messages to be sent from one device to another. The use of text messaging increased by 107% in 2009. Approximately 2.5 billion text messages are sent each day in the United States. More text messages are now sent via cell phone than calls placed with those same phones. Employers can adopt a policy prohibiting text messaging at work. If text messaging continues, you can discipline employees for violating the policy because, as you note, employees who are texting while at work are not working. Because of the prevalence of text messaging, even if you ban text messaging during work hours, you should put some guidelines in place that address texting in the workplace and require that your employees comply with them. For instance, you should have a policy in place that prevents the sending, receiving, or displaying of messages or images (email, text, or otherwise) on personal mobile devices if those messages or...
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...BUYER CHARACTERISTICS Name: | Guy Fieri | Industry Segment: | Restaurant – Full-Service – Mid-size to large independent and multi-unit | Job Titles: | Owner/Operator | Reports To (Titles): | Self | Age Range: | 40+ | Predominant Gender: | Male | Years on the Job: | 10+ | Education: | Bachelors Degree | BUYER’S FIVE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES (in order of importance): 1. Filling as many tables as possible on a daily basis (with either repeat clients or new clients) 2. Ensuring a consistent level of quality experience for every client, every time 3. Training and managing staff 4. Marketing to existing and new clients TOP FIVE OBSTACLES OR PROBLEMS THAT INTERFERE WITH THE BUYER’S SUCCESS: 1. Traditional marketing like print ads and mailers are expensive and don’t guarantee any measurable ROI. E-mail marketing is better, cheaper, and definitely has its place. However, only a few percent of e-mails are ever opened, and many of my customers do not want to give out their e-mail addresses for fear of more SPAM. 2. My inability to quote accurate wait times for walk-in and call-ahead parties, while simultaneously ensuring that reservations are seated at the time they requested, during peak hours negatively impacts my customers’ satisfaction. 3. Taking reservations by phone with pen & paper by phone is inefficient, requires that someone is available at all hours of the day (even when we’re closed), and is prone to human error. Using reservations...
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...The Hidden Positive Impact of Text Messaging On Literacy The importance of text messaging is emphasized by several research findings. According to research cited in Education (Education), text message shorthand is vital in assisting youngsters to improve their phonic awareness and linguistic creativity. Powell and Dixon also discuss the importance of short messaging systems (SMS) and exposure to textism (the use of texting slangs) in enhancing learners’ spelling skills (Powell and Dixon). Wood conducted a research on the implications of text messaging on the literacy of 9 to 10-year-old-children’s literacy skills. Wood notes that the exposure to text messaging and their counterparts who do not have access to SMS might be contributing, positively, to the literacy skills development among 9 to 10-year-old-children (Wood). Furthermore, past studies analyzed by Verheijen report a positive correlation between the use of SMS and literacy levels among users (Verheijen). Belying the findings of these studies, however, is the viewpoint among older generation researchers and academicians that text messaging has negative correlations to improving learning skills among users. They argue that text messaging has contributed detrimental implications on learners as opposed to its emphasized importance by recent researchers. They present counterarguments justifying their disapproval of the importance of text messaging on learning. They cite the negative implications of technology on learners...
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...language (Delgado, 2014) and has prompted leaders to align themselves with the organization's vision (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013/2014) as some educators believe that texting should be incorporated in classroom instruction. Today's college students are a part of the millennials which are also known as "the texting generation" who were born between 1982 and 2002 (NIU, 2015). They are considered the most diverse and their uniqueness and defining characteristics have been shaped by technology (Gladfelter and Friedman, 2014). Communication has become more electronic in form and experts say that children write more in this generation than they did 20 years ago because of texting and social media and most of that writing is text-speak, which is a SMS language commonly known in mobile text messaging (Merrit, 2013). A study found that texting may improve children's spelling and grammar because of using abbreviation such as 'gr8' in short for 'great', makes students think about language phonetically (Carter, 2014). According to author Judith Burns, believed that from a study shows that the most creative texters were among the best spellers (Burns, 2014). Research done with the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning discovered that the association between spelling and text messaging may be explained by a "highly phonetic nature" of the abbreviation that children used and the alphabetic awareness required to decode words (Paton, 2011). However, criticisms have surfaced against millennials. They...
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...Unit 4 business communication Explain the different types of information, their sources and purpose that exist for a chosen business, I have chosen Tesco. Telephone Purpose of information - communicating to someone via telephone can be fast way to give someone important information for example a change in time for an important business meeting. Telephoning someone is much more personal than emailing or sending a letter. One disadvantage of telephoning someone is that you don’t always have single and sometimes people have their phones switched off, this is not good if you need to make an urgent phone call. But you can always leave them a voice mail message. Source of information(internal and external) - one way a phone call could be internally used by Tesco is if a manager needed extra staff urgently he or she could ring up staff they think would be able to make it in such short notice. One way Tesco could externally use a phone call could be to contact a customer about a complaint they made. Face to face Purpose of information – face to face is a lot more personal than a phone because you can see their body language and f acial expressions, for example you can see whether they are showing signs of confusion so you can slow do and try and explain what you are saying more clearly. By talking to someone in person you can give them more direct information. Source of information (internal and external) – one example of internal face to face use In Tesco would be if an manager...
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...regarding text messaging in the workplace? I am not sure what I can and cannot do to prevent my employees from texting at work. Answer: Text messaging (or “texting”) has grown so quickly in popularity and has become so pervasive that it has become part of our workplace culture. Some recent statistics regarding text messaging demonstrate how incredibly popular it has become in the last several years: More than 70% of wireless users (or more than 200 million Americans) have an SMS (or “short message service”) package for their mobile device that allows for short text messages to be sent from one device to another. The use of text messaging increased by 107% in 2009. Approximately 2.5 billion text messages are sent each day in the United States. More text messages are now sent via cell phone than calls placed with those same phones. Employers can adopt a policy prohibiting text messaging at work. If text messaging continues, you can discipline employees for violating the policy because, as you note, employees who are texting while at work are not working. Because of the prevalence of text messaging, even if you ban text messaging during work hours, you should put some guidelines in place that address texting in the workplace and require that your employees comply with them. For instance, you should have a policy in place that prevents the sending, receiving, or displaying of messages or images (email, text, or otherwise) on personal mobile devices if those messages or...
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...SMS Text Analysis: Language, Gender and Current Practices Muhammad Shaban Rafi1 Abstract This article tests the assumption that SMS language is like a pidgin in every speech community. The article also examines the assumption that a great motor of SMS lives among females whose lexical and morpho-syntactic choices are different from males. It further speculates influence of SMS language on language of media. One hundred messages were taken randomly from 20 cell phones and perceptions of 25 males and 25 females were recorded on an ordinal scale for analysis. The text was analyzed to look into lexicology, morphology and syntactic levels of texters, and influence of SMS on language of commercials. The results show that a novice intelligible language has evolved through SMS, which is influencing language of media. A significant difference is found between male and female texters’ linguistic properties. Introduction Short Message Service (SMS) language tends to create a novice language, which has become an integral part of the multilingual world. It pursues simple sentences structure for communication. It is assumed that SMS syntactic and lexical choices by the texters are not so different from a child language. A child expresses his feelings through simple present progressive tense e.g. mom eating for ‘Mom is eating’ and Eating for ‘I am eating’. The empirical data show that SMS language over-looks orthographic and syntactic rules of a language with a great emphasis...
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...it’s fast and straight to the point. Young children, teens, adults, and even the elderly have caught on to this new trend. How does one know when enough is enough and its time to put down the mobile device? Some have rules about texting when at dinner, in school, and there are even no texting rules in movie theaters. Many abide by those rules, but it seems so individuals believe they are safe while texting and driving, may even say they are good at it. Needless to say many people are guilty of texting while driving, but it seems as if as humans we tend to do something until something bad happens to us. Is that texts that important to risk ones own life, or someone else, or even a family or friend in the car? A SMS message, also known as a text message is a short brief note that usually consists of up to 160 characters as a form of communication between two or more cell phones. Many can argue that a short text is harmless, but there are cases where just reaching for a phone lead to ending someones life. Texting and driving is now the leading cause of teen deaths passing suicides, alcohol, and drugs. Preventing an accident including texting is avoidable, but many put their life on the line by disregarding the laws against texting and driving. Statistics are more than just numbers they are facts of real life events that have taken place and have been noted. Although teens are not the only culprit, adults admit to have had texting at some point through out a drive somewhere and have...
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...Texting has been around for a while now but it has started becoming very popular and trendy over the last several years. In 2005 I purchased my first cell phone a Boost Mobile/ Walkie Talkie Phone. I was able to send text messages but never did. Being a prepaid phone it was expensive and I preferred for every bit of my time to go towards and actual conversation. However once phone companies started offering plans of unlimited texting, texting became very popular. I can appreciate the fact of how convenient texting is. It’s a great way for people to communicate quickly and quietly. Texting is a accommodating device to use when transferring information, directions, and other helpful things. On the other hand there are cases of the negative effects texting can cause people. I watched a television program on MTV about two young ladies who considered their selves textaholics. (http://www.mtv.com/videos/true-life-im-a-textaholic/1672744/playlist.jhtml, True Life: I am a Textaholic, October 2011) One young lady was a senior with the dream of playing volleyball in college. She texted so much that she begun having difficulties in her wrist. She also was going to have to have surgery. What surprised me was that her mother was asking her if she could text less. If a child cannot resist the urge to lay their phone down for their own safety and health reasons then a parent needs to step in. At the end the girl reduced her text messaging by thousands but ended up not playing volleyball...
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...A Breeze through Popular Culture Often parents and adults say that we teenagers text too often, play video games for vast hours, and that we watch unworthy fake news programs. In addition they say that all this diminishes our intelligence, however this is not one hundred percent true. Furthermore, I will acknowledge that text speak, video games, and fake news are instead changing the way people think in a positive manner. Although this is not a traditional way of gaining knowledge, it is still a growth that people who think in a conservative way have to accept. Text speak, video games and fakes news, have created a different way of learning, enhanced our communication skills, and they have increased our imagination. An examination of 2B or Not 2B by author David Crystal, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by author Tom Bissell, and The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show by author Jason Zinser will reveal to us how text speak, video games, and fakes news also result in positive outcomes. Text speak, video gaming, and fake news have revolutionized the way we learn. David Crystal, well known for his work in English language studies and linguistics, says in his essay 2B or Not 2B that text speak is not something alien to us, the way we use text speak is what is different. It is important that we teenagers establish to parents, adults, and teachers that we are not destroying the English language neither adapting poor writing habits by abbreviating words. I have made the conclusion...
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